architecture

July 10, 2016
Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hādriānus), whose far-flung adventures inspired the commission of some of the Rome’s most enduring and storied monuments, died on 10 July in 138.

July 3, 2016
Architect and urban planner-theorist Carlo Aymonino died on 3 July 2010.

July 2, 2016
Architect and sculptor Jacopo Sansovino was baptized on 2 July 1486 in Florence.

June 9, 2016
Born on this day – June 9 th – was Italian architect Marchese Luigi Cagnola , in 1762.

May 19, 2016
The most important architect and urban theorist of the Italian Fascist Regime, Marcello Piacentini, died in Rome on this day, May 19, in 1960.

April 18, 2016
Modernist architect Giuseppe Terragni was born on 19 July 1943 in Meda, Lombardy.

April 16, 2016
Filippo Brunelleschi died on 16 April 1446 in Florence.

April 2, 2016
Italian architect Ferdinando Sanfelice died on 2 April 1748 in his hometown of Naples, where he rose to become one of the city’s leading architects.

February 23, 2016
Famed architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri died on 23 February 1994 in Venice.

January 31, 2016
Sicilian architect Filippo Juvarra died on 31 January 1736 in Madrid.